To whom it may concern: here's a description of how I installed a new Gentoo within an existing Gentoo, an experiment that was no hassle! _________________AMD Athlon XP 2600+; 512M RAM;
nVidia FX5700LE; Hitachi 120Gb
2.6.9-nitro4, reiser4, linux26-headers+nptl

To get the benefits that gcc-3.4.x provides (I guess that's what you really want ), you do need to rebuild world, but 'emerge -e world' may not be enough because you need to rebuild your toolchain first, so it's better to 'emerge -e system && emerge -e world'. Here's a guide: HOWTO Migrating to GCC 3.4

By default, the /boot partition is not mounted on boot in Gentoo for security reasons; if you would like it automatically mounted on boot, you may switch on the "auto" option for the /boot partition in /etc/fstab, like this:

Code:

/dev/hda9 /boot ext2 auto,noatime 1 2

If you do

Code:

# cd
# ls -a

you should see some config files in /root. If there isn't any ordinary files in /root, it just means the root user hasn't put anything in it yet.

BTW have you created a normal user? In case you didn't, issue the following command to add a user: